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I've been a miniatures enthusiast since I was a kid, but rekindled my hobby later in life (Much to my wife's chagrin, as she had no idea she had married an uber geek!) Now firmly entrenched in middle age I have discovered the joy of painting and playing with these little guys all over again, and have made a lot of wonderful friendships along the way.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Arthurian Legends Mordred Army and Castle Fortress

Here is the army arrayed for battle. Basically this army was an excuse to use all of those old figures I had lying around, themed around a late medieval version of Mordred's forces. I looked at old illustrations from NC Wyeth and Howard Pyle for inspiration, but also tried to operate within the confines of what I had available.

Essex billmen to protect the bowmen. Being minions of Mordred and lazy, evil types in general, they don't bother to polish the rust off their armor

Splintered light bowmen left over from my Pict and Welsh/Robin Hood project.

Warband using mostly some of Splintered Light's excellent character figures (including Grendel) with some Old Glory Normans mixed in.

The hordes. These were painted by David McBride as part of a huge Robin Hood prize army I was fortunate enough to win. I spun off some of the excess to serve with Mordred.

I think these started life as part of my Welsh historical DBA army, but were really too late in appearance for that army so they ended up as the Black Knight (hero) and the knights of Mordred (Below - play as knights)

Howard Pyle describes Arthur's knights fighting a giant in his series on King Arthur so I figured Mordred had to have one.

No evil army would be complete without something that makes things go boom. Like Saruman in the Lord of the Rings, I just figured Mordred and Morgana would have a thing for gunpowder.

Speaking of Morganna - here she is. I had to sculpt hair and clothes for her as well as a staff, but at least I can show her to the kids now. She is mounted on bits of Hackberry bark - a trick I learned from Paul Potter.

Not quite Sean Connery, but it will do for the green knight. I painted his armor normally and then washed with Green ink which gives it a nice translucent green quality.

Mordred surveying the battlefield. His base is made from a combination of Sculptamold paper mache, Hackberry bark, and dyed plaster debris.

My favorite part of the army is the Stronghold. Paul Potter originated this idea in a camp of his design incorporating the castle and tree of woe. I decided I wanted to minimize the scale differential between the tree and the castle, so constructed the mountain on which it sits out of styrofoam, Sculptamold paper-mache, plaster and dyed plaster debris.

I love this view of the path from the tree of woe leading up to the castle!

Look forward to trying out the army in this year's Good, Bad and Ugly tournament.